Jan 1, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Zan It’s 2021 and we rejoice in the start of a brand new year! The unpredictability of 2020 has taught us make some positive and achievable plans for 2021. And having thought long and hard, we’d like to share them with you: As per our announcement, we...
Dec 28, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Right now, my world is under nearly three feet of snow. It is even quieter in Vermont than usual, and I can hear the busy woodpeckers hammering away above, and a stream gurgling determinedly at the bottom of the garden. Getting anywhere new, off the carefully dug path...
Dec 7, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
It can feel odd sometimes, to be an adult who talks about play so much. Advocating means saying yes: play is important for children at school. Yes: play is important for communities, for the earth. Whatever the conversation, play should be part of it. Play is, for me,...
Sep 11, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
We are so enormously excited about the upcoming Prioritizing Play Conference! Kelsey of KOOP Adventure Play has gathered a remarkably knowledgeable, talented, and genuinely diverse line-up of play and playwork people. This is going to be a 7-week online conference...
Sep 9, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Our Playworker Development Course brings people together from all over the world to talk about playwork. Divya is from India. She joined the course in March 2019, with the intention of channelling her passion for play. She successfully completed the course in March...
Aug 26, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Maritza has been a friend to Pop-Ups for several years. She is a gifted playworker at AP at the Parish School, a warm host to Campference visitors, and creator of truly magnificent pupusas. As a student on our Playworker Development Course, Maritza has now shared a...
Jul 28, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Our Playworker Development Course brings people together from all over the world to talk about playwork. Divya is from India. She joined the course in March 2019, with the intention of channelling her passion for play. She successfully completed the course in March...
Jul 2, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Morgan This pandemic play note goes out to Anthony from Vivo, who asked “but how do I clean this tub full of pool noodle chunks?” He asked it worried, laughing, earnest. It felt like a quintessential playworker question – knowing the value of what looks like...
Jun 2, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Every adventure playground is unique. There are definitely trends across them – longtime fans will recognize patterns of handmade wooden constructions, enthusiastically painted. More mud than grass. Weird trash, emerging from the landscape. Often a fringe of...
May 21, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
There are some questions we’ve asked a thousand times. “What is play?” Moreover: “What did you love, when you were a child?” “What do you do for fun, these days?” It’s part of our warm-up routine, when standing in front of teachers, childcare professionals, parents...
May 19, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Times were tough, but sometimes it’s good to reminisce about past fun times and future plans. Claude Stephens, and the good people of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, helped us do just that by hosting Playwork Campference 2021. The event was held on their...
Apr 18, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Pop-Up’s Zan The last few weeks have been very strange, and children have been processing this weirdness in their play. As the person who has been keeping our social media ticking along, I’ve also been keeping our eyes out for coronavirus-inspired play....
